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July 3, 2001

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To the Editor:

The removal of Holocaust artifacts from the Ukraine discussed in your op-ed piece (“The Wrong Way to Protect the Jewish Past,” July 3rd) is not the only scandal of this nature facing major Holocaust museums today. In November 2000 the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. cut a deal with the unelected Premier of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, which improperly transferred Holocaust archives and artifacts out of Bosnia. At least 25,000 Jews and hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies, and anti-fascist Yugoslavs were murdered at Jasenovac by the Croatian Nazi wartime régime. That the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum now wishes to transfer these archives this year back into the hands of a Croatian government which is tied to and upholds the very same Nazi past is an outrage to Survivors and another stain on the reputation of Holocaust institutions.

Jim Yarker
Administrative Director
Jasenovac Research Institute